Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --check-destination-dir taking a very long time

[Patrik Dufresne]

> Note that BTRFS is no longer supported in RHEL 8

That is a very interesting fact. Now I'm wondering what is the alternative
proposed by RHEL.

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 1:23 PM Robert Nichols <address@hidden>
wrote:

> On 9/12/19 7:55 AM, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
> > For a server, I would recommend ZFS without hesitation. Data integrity is
> > at the heart of ZFS which makes it a very good choice for backup storage.
> > It provides many features that ease the storage management. Quota,
> > compression, configurable record size, configurable sync writes, raidz,
> > snapshots, etc.
> >
> >
> > For an external storage, like a USB drive, I would probably pick BTRFS
> for
> > interchangeability reason. ZFS might still be used for an external drive,
> > but required the installation of ZFS on Linux to be working which is not
> > installed by default. While BTRFS is shipped as part of Linux Kernel. So
> in
> > case of emergency, you might plug the disk in almost any Linux computer
> and
> > get access to your files. BTRFS provide checksum and copy on write
> feature
> > that you want to ensure data integrity. But I would not recommend BTRFS
> for
> > any RAID setup. RAID5/6 is known to be buggy for a couple of years. I
> would
> > not trust my data on a BTRFS RAID. But for a single drive it's a very
> good
> > alternative to ext4
>
> Note that BTRFS is no longer supported in RHEL 8. "You can no longer
> create, mount, or install on Btrfs file systems in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> 8." (Quoted from
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/
> )
>
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